Gold-Mining Stocks for the Long Run

Shares of miners took a dive last week but still represent long-term value for investors with iron stomachs.

Even on a day when the SPDR Gold Trust, an ETF that tracks the metal's price, ended virtually unchanged, the Market Vectors ETF Trust Gold Miners shed more than 4.5% in a sharply falling broader stock market.

That's a very shocking divergence, indeed.

But out of destruction comes opportunity. And for investors with enough nerve to handle...